RRose

RRose

@dawphin.bsky.social

Someone said there’d be cake. Writer, originally Chicawgowan, living in Oyreland for the craic. Older - and stronger - than dirt.

3,956 Followers 4,497 Following 4,952 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Black and white of a night scene showing a bright streetlamp illuminating fog over the silhouette of a parked car and blurred houses.

Misty evening..

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The Wedge. First big south swell of the season!
#surfing #bodysurfing #skimboarding #bodyboarding #surfphotography

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#RockinTuesday #geology #sandstone #redrocks #arch #rockformations This #formation has #always #DrawnMeIn #EastCoastKin #ECK #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtYear #WeekJForJuxtaposition #AlphabetChallenge #Hearts #ShowHeart #WestCoastKin #shadows #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #photography

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Taking decor inspo from this restaurant fr

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A grey wave with skelly.

This was supposed to be an under painting but I love it. It is grey gloomy and has a skeleton, all made on purpose in response to someone trying to tell me how I should paint.

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2 months ago
Larry, my dog stands on a grassy outcrop overlooking the rugged, sun-drenched scenery of the Beara Peninsula towards Hungry Hill.

Took Larry for a walk, hungry hill, Beara peninsula.

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The time that a dancer asked me if I had any other ideas at the end of a shoot and I replied …’yes I’d like to wrap you up in brown paper and sticky tape’ …how much fun we had … model Anna Mansbridge photographed in my old studios in 1994 - photograph©️markbrookes #modelshoot #dancer #filmphotography

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Billie Dove by Preston Duncan, 1931.

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unaccountable masses of shades and shadows

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17 hours ago

Stained Glass Hog With Christian, Muslim, Coptic Tattoos

provider one opens bidding at one million quatloos

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6 days ago
A black and white half frame photograph of silhouetted fells

A later afternoon walk brought silence, silhouettes and solitary moments - Lake District Observations

📷Pentax 17
🎞️Ilford XP2 400 developed with DDX

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #HFF #lakedistrict

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#photography

July.

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Sunset in the city

#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenge
#UrbanGaze

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5 days ago
A 35mm black and white photograph of a very old farm grain bin .

| S i g h L o w |

Winter writes in monochrome .

#ColorADay #BWFri #EastCoastKin #Film #35mm🎞️

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6 months ago
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#photography #art #color #canon #nature #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72

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Vietnam is a land of contrasts with every region we explored telling a completely different story. From the electric energy of the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh to the quiet tradition of Hue and the ancient towns of central Vietnam, each destination brought its own mood and its own subjects.

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Good at sussing out hidden sweetness, I reckon.

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#BonnieKoloc #AfterAllThisTime (1971 #Ovation). still there.

tuffcityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/after-...

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The black-and-white photo depicts a stubble field with a forest edge on the right side of the image. The rows of stubble curve outward from the foreground, initially bending slightly to the right and then to the left before disappearing into the background. In the background, several bare trees border the field.

Throwback on February

#photography #photographersonbluesky #winter #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

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If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise. It’s unlikely to be bears but if you're somewhere along the UK’s west coast you may just find yourself in a rainforest, or at least a temperate one. Kian Hayles-Cotton reflects on his PhD fieldwork.

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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A small tree, covered in white blossom, is highlighted by the late afternoon sun trying to break through a sky full of stormy grey clouds.

#10minutesfromhome

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Easy on the pulchitrudes.

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American artist Jeff Donaldson’s title invokes Shango, a ruler of the Oyo empire and a major Yoruba spiritual figure associated with thunder, lightning, power, and justice. The three strong women represent his wives: Oshun, Oba, and Oya who fought beside him. Donaldson reimagines them in the language of Black pride and liberation in 1969. They are not distant mythic figures, but modern, self-possessed women whose beauty, dignity, and readiness suggest spiritual authority as well as political power. They connect Yoruba memory to Black self-determination during the Black Arts Movement, making the painting a vision of women as protectors, cultural anchors, and agents of resistance. The three Black women stand close together, like a shared monument. Their skin is modeled in deep browns, amber, copper, and gold, and the watercolor surface flickers with warm oranges, reds, and yellows, making the whole composition feel radiant and heat-filled. All three wear natural Afro hairstyles that expand their silhouettes with pride and presence. The woman at left turns her face outward in profile, wearing a pink-orange dress, an ankh pendant, and a belt of bullets slung low across her hips. A long firearm hangs vertically beside her shoulder. The central figure wears white, a necklace of large beads, and a cross pendant. The woman in profile at right, in a yellow dress with patterned trim, holds an open fan. Donaldson presents them not as passive muses but as dignified, alert, and formidable women. Painted just after Donaldson helped found AfriCOBRA in Chicago, the work reflects his commitment to a proudly Black, community-centered aesthetic that celebrated beauty, power, and African diasporic connection. Rather than placing women at the margins of revolution, he centers them as intellectual, spiritual, and political equals. The glowing palette intensifies the sense that these women feel iconic and almost sanctified like a vision of Black resilience and sovereignty.

“Wives of Shango” by Jeff Donaldson (American) - Watercolor with mixed media on paper / 1969 - Brooklyn Museum (New York) #WomenInArt #1960sArt #artText #art #JeffDonaldson #Donaldson #Yoruba #BrooklynMuseum #BlackArtsMovement #BlueskArt #BlackArtist #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #AfriCOBRA

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The title "Westchester Gauguin I" signals American artist Shirley Gorelick’s deliberate reworking of Gauguin’s grouped female figures in a modern Westchester setting, merging an art-historical reference with her own portrait series of suburban adolescents. Three young women (believed to be Wendy, Beth, and Dena Rakower) stand close together before dense, sun-struck greenery, their bodies arranged almost like a living frieze. Each has long, dark hair and a calm, self-possessed presence, yet each occupies the scene differently. At left, one faces outward with a direct, steady gaze, wrapped in a gold robe edged in white and her hands in front. The central figure stands taller and more frontal, wearing a cool gray-blue patterned robe that opens down the torso and her expression introspective. At right, a third woman turns her head downward and sideways, one arm lifted into her hair, her multicolored checked robe creating the most active pattern in the composition. Their medium-brown skin, dark eyes, and long hair contrast with the restless green foliage behind them. Gorelick’s brushwork is vigorous and textured, building strong shadows, warm flesh tones, and a tactile sense of cloth, hair, and leaves. The mood is quiet, serious, and psychologically charged rather than decorative. Gorelick’s painting feels less like fantasy and more like critique, re-grounding the image of women in contemporary presence and agency. Rather than turning her sitters into exotic types, she gives each woman weight, individuality, and interior life. Made in 1974, the work belongs to the moment when Gorelick was developing what she called a psychologically driven realism within the feminist art world of 1970s New York. Her women are sensual, but not passive; vulnerable in exposure, yet undeniably self-possessed. The trio format also anticipates her larger “Three Sisters” and “Three Graces” explorations, where relationship, repetition, and subtle difference matter as much as likeness.

"Westchester Gauguin I" by Shirley Gorelick (American) - Acrylic on canvas / 1974 - National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ShirleyGorelick #Gorelick #artText #1970sArt #BskyArt #WomenPaintingWomen #NMWA #NationalMuseumofWomenintheArts

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Under JOKER, a boy dressed in red hat, shirt and pants points to his left. Underneath it reads KASTHURI MATCH INDUSTRIES SIVAKASI.

Matchbox, 12 March

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Phyllis Branson #chicagoimagists

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Windy day, clouds over the Bay.

#Galway

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Dirk Schulte
Abendflieger
2022

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